The Plains High School - Yearbook (The Plains, OH)

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1938 THE MOUND BUILDERS 1938

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1938 THE MOUND BUILDERS 1938 SENIORS ROY LANGEL Industrial Arts 1-2-3 Glee Club Junior Play Annual Staff LUCILLE MacDONALD Glee Club F. H. A. Latin Club Operetta 2-3-4 Band-Orchestra Junior Play Annual Staff MELVIN MOORE industrial Ails 1-2-3-4 Class Secretary 3 Junior Play Annual Staff IDABELLE WALLACE Valedictorian Basketball 1-2-3-4 F. H. A. Latin Club Vice-President of Student Body 4 Class President 2 Glee Club Orchestra-Band Operetta 2-3 Junior Play Annual Staff Winner State Honors in Home Economics WALTER WHARTON Salutatorian Glee Club Orchestra-Band Operetta 2-3 Junior Play Annual Staff

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1938 THE MOUND BUILDERS CLASS HISTORY CLASS HISTORY In the year of 1926. a group of happy whole-hearted children started to school. They were eager to find what school had in store for them. As they entered the door, they clung tightly to their mother’s skirts. One little red headed boy, especially, came in crying. Mama, I don’t want to go to school”; now that boy is one of the outstanding members of the senior class, Walter Wharton Jr. Miss Shannon, our first grade teacher w’as very dignified, and taught us how to use paints, crayons and paste pictures in a book. In our little chairs wre gather- ed around our teacher and tried our best to learn different words. At the end of the year she bid us adieu, and that ended the first year of school. Next year we entered the second grade. There Miss Weatherbee taught us the fundamentals of education; reading, printing, and counting. This year all the girls were crazy about movie stars and could be seen trading pictures every recess. Lucille wras always trading a picture of Billie Dove to Kathryn for a picture of Douglas Fairbanks. In the third grade our teacher. Miss Hooper, kept close tab on us for now we were learning the cute little tricks that wrere to help make up our personalities. Even then Melvin Moore was developing his dreamy way. and Idabelle was squir- ing the cute, intriguing way of fooling the teachers. At last we reached the fourth grade. During this year Lucille and Idabelle had their first and only fight. They were saved by the recess bell. This was one of the many acts with which Miss Alta Cooper had to contend, but she hated to see us leave. Then the fifth grade, when Miss Elliott took us down to her house w’here we prepared our own dinner. The boys set the table while the girls were busy in the kitchen. But Oh! that day. which is the most outstanding thing to all the girls, w’hen Bart Keeton entered our room! Every girl quarried about who would get him When we finally reached the sixth grade we thought we had gained all the knowledge that was necessary but Miss Elva Cooper quickly changed our minds. She was only too glad to send us over to the high school building. In 1932 we entered the seventh grade, a group of shy, green kids. This year wre had our first weiner roast at Stag’s Mound. Mr. Humphrey, our adviser, tried to help us overcome our difficulties but we “w ere too backward to make use of the advice he gave us. Next year, in the eighth grade, we had a bigger and better weiner roast. This one w’as held on Courtney Hill. The evening w-as spent in rolling down the hill, and one boy even fell in the creek, ending this weiner roast with a splash! By this time wre had overcome some of our shyness and had accepted Mr. Humphrey as a friend and net as one w’ho rules us with an iron hand. We then entered high school and w ere joined by the Luhrig and Factory Ramblers: Arthur Ellis, Rhoda Lohse. Dorothy Fierce, Eleanor Stephens, Tom Jones, Dan Armbruster, Earl Huseman Fred Kinnison, Eileen Brewer. Harold McBride. Tom Jones and Clifford Willis. They w’ere welcomed by the rest of the class and soon were friends of all. This year had a tragic ending by Walter having a smash up at the foot of Morris and Brown Hill. Everyone was slightly shaken up and howT! As Sophomores we w’ere r.o longer green. Net much happened this year for we w’ere to busy studying. In our Junior year Mr. Calvin became our sponsor and proved to be a loyal friend as well as a good adviser. There came a great shock to our class when four